The hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii encodes two putative transcription regulators, Ptr1 and Ptr2, that are members of the Lrp/AsnC family of bacterial transcription regulators. In… (More)

The relatively complex archaeal RNA polymerases are constructed along eukaryotic lines, and require two initiation factors for promoter recognition and specific transcription that are homologues of… (More)

Many archaea (including all the methanogens, nearly all euryarchaeotes, and some crenarchaeotes) use histones as components of the chromatin that compacts their genomes. The archaeal histones are… (More)

The core components of the archaeal transcription apparatus closely resemble those of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II, while the DNA-binding transcriptional regulators are predominantly of bacterial… (More)

The hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii encodes two putative transcription regulators, Ptr1 and Ptr2, related to the bacterial Lrp/AsnC family of transcriptional regulators. We show… (More)